The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week and remains historically low as the labor market continues to show resiliency in the face of high interest rates and elevated inflation. The Labor Department reported Thursday that unemployment claims for the week ending April 27 was 208,000, the same as the previous week. Weekly unemployment claims are considered a proxy for the number of U.S. layoffs in a given week and a sign of where the job market is headed.
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday announced $1 billion in aid to Lebanon during a visit to the crisis-hit country and urged it to tackle illegal migration to the bloc."I can announce a financial package of $1 billion for Lebanon that would be available from this year until 2027," von der Leyen said, adding that "we want to contribute to Lebanon's socio-economic stability".
Police removed barricades, took protesters into custody and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ camp at the University of California, Los Angeles early Thursday, hours after threatening arrests if people didn't disperse. The police action occurred a night after the UCLA administration and campus police waited hours to stop an attack by counter-protesters, drawing condemnation from Muslim students and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Much of Asia is sweltering under a heat wave that one expert calls "by far the most extreme event in world climatic history."
FUJI-KAWAGUCHIKO, Japan (Reuters) - Officials in a Japanese town are erecting a 2.5-meter (8.2 ft) high barrier to block a view of Mount Fuji and obstruct a photo spot that has been attracting so many visitors they have become a nuisance for locals. Visitors have been flocking to Fuji-Kawaguchiko town, about 50 kilometres (31 miles) southwest of Tokyo, to capture the coupling of two symbols of Japan: the majestic, sloping inclines of Mount Fuji and the convenience store, a view which has gone viral on social media. The barrier is the latest sign of Japan's struggle to accommodate an unprecedented surge in visitors to the country amid a slump in the nation's currency to a 34-year low.
The Palestinian Embassy in Egypt is seeking temporary residency permits for tens of thousands of people who have arrived from Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas, which it says would ease conditions for them until the conflict is over. Diab al-Louh, the Palestinian ambassador in Cairo, said as many as 100,000 Gazans had crossed into Egypt, where they lack the papers to enrol their children in schools, open businesses or bank accounts, travel, or access health insurance - though some have found ways to make a living. Louh stressed that residency permits would only be for legal and humanitarian purposes, adding that those who arrived since the war began on Oct. 7 had no plans to settle in Egypt.
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Novo Nordisk has seen the price of its hugely popular weight-loss drug Wegovy and diabetes drug Ozempic fall in the United States as volumes and competition have increased, a senior executive said on Thursday. Wegovy prices in the United States were "slightly down" in the first quarter and Novo expects further decreases through the rest of 2024, Chief Financial Officer Karsten Munk Knudsen said on a call with media. On Ozempic, "we do see continued reduction in price" in the U.S. market, Knudsen later said on an investor call, also citing increased volumes and competition.
Officials identified the victim as Miguel Angel Luna Gonzalez, 49, of Maryland. He was one of six workers on the bridge when it collapsed in March.
Italy is allowed to confiscate an ancient Greek bronze fished from the Adriatic in the 1960s and now in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday.But the sculpture, attributed to Greek artist Lysippos, has remained on display at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles' high-end Pacific Palisades district.
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